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    Treadmills save my week!

    I am recently retired from the US Navy and had to go back down to the Beach this week to do paperwork....medical! I was trying to make some cash while I was there with the help of my former workers on the Base who gave me word on 3 full sized old treadmills! They wer 2 1/2 ft wide and 8 ft long mostly steel with 3 motors that weighed in at 125 lbs and 3 cast aluminum bases that weighed about 20lbs each and a host of other copper wires and a circuit board with a huge aluminum cover. I broke it all down and left the yard this morning with 186.05 cash money! This saved my week!


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    Sweet!!!!!!

    And thank you for your service from an old retired Gunny, Mike.

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    congratulations dc

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    You'll love this, Hippies use motors from Treadmills to store energy into batteries via Wind Turbine. The 3 motors alone were worth $150, but atleast you made some money.

    Check those motors out on ebay some time.

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    Gotta find me some treadmills. Nice.
    Eat. Sleep. Scrap.

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    well I guess next time Ill do my homework!


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